Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 18 June
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
The first event ever to run at the Wheeler Centre was a Debut Mondays session, and two years On, we’re just as committed to fostering new talent.
Whether it’s meeting Australian literature’s newest wunderkind or hearing a known quantity strike a bold new path, Debut Mondays is your chance to discover some great new writing. Each month we’ll introduce you to a selection of new voices from across Victoria and beyond, including a special guest in every session from Voiceworks magazine.
Debut Mondays has moved to the Wheeler Centre’s new cafe/bar the MOAT. So pop in, grab a drink and enjoy the stories.
This month, join us for Kristin Henry, Hannah Richell, Sydney Smith and Amber Beilharz.
Featuring
Amber Beilharz
Amber Beilharz’s stories have been published in Hunger Mountain, antiTHESIS and Voiceworks, and shortlisted for the Judith Rodriguez Prize in 2010. She has also edited Verandah 25 and co-runs a poetry blog at ...
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith is a past winner of The Age Short Story Competition, and her fiction and non-fiction has appeared in The Age, Griffith REVIEW, Island, Imago and the New England Review. She founded and co-ordinates the Victorian Mentoring Service for Writers. The Lost Woman is her first book.
Sydney was born and grew up in Wellington, New Zealand, the daughter of a Maori mother and pakeha father. She moved to Australia when she was twenty-five and has lived here ever since.
Kristin Henry
Kristin Henry is a Melbourne poet who loves connecting with a live audience. She has read and sung her poetry in many venues throughout Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom over the past 25 years.
Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Kristin attended over twenty schools across the southern states of the US before migrating to Australia at the age of 18. Kristin has previously published five collections of poetry and been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Award.
She currently teaches advanced poetry and short story writing in the Holmesglen Institute’s Professional Writing and Editing course. All the Way Home is her first verse novel.
Hannah Richell
Hannah Richell now lives in Sydney with her husband and their two young children. Secrets of the Tides is her first novel and she is currently hard at work on her second.
After years of driving desks in publishing, marketing and film, she finally summoned the courage to do what she had always secretly wanted to do and wrote her first novel in stolen moments as her young son slept.
She explains: ‘Before that I was lucky enough to work in publishing, marketing books and authors as varied as The Gruffalo, Jodi Picoult, Stephen King and David Mitchell. After deciding to emigrate to the other side of the world, I drove across Australia in an ex-army Landcruiser with my then boyfriend, got engaged at Ningaloo reef on Christmas Day, settled in Sydney, marketed feature films for Universal Pictures, worked as Brand Manager for Stephenie Meyer and started a family. It was the journey into motherhood that helped me focus on my writing and inspired this first novel.’